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How to use the word Primarily in a Sentence?

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For me, hiking Sahara Convertible Pants primarily function to protect my legs, whether from an overgrown trail, poison oak, ticks or coarse boulders I may have to climb over.

Cris Hazzard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These numbers are likely higher than a lot of the numbers you are seeing from news outlets because their criteria for an atmospheric river is likely stricter and considers the impacts that they bring, there are [also] instances when an atmospheric river is primarily targeting the Pacific Northwest, but clips the far northwestern portions of California, say Del Norte County, with weak conditions.

Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And so the whole district is now being taken over for reasons that are primarily focused on a very few schools in a very large district – and specifically one school in a very large district.

Domingo Morel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problems that faced Silvergate were primarily a result of less-than-adequate risk management, notably one of relying too much on volatile short-term deposits while lending or investing at a longer duration, this is not like the collapse of FTX, where investors lost their deposits, but, rather, an orderly dissolution.

Dave Weisberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to be crystal clear, the drugs in this room and the drugs that are flooding Arizona every single day are sourced primarily by one evil as the Sinaloa drug cartel, we are laser-focused on the Sinaloa drug cartel and we will defeat them. We will not stop.

Charge Cheri Oz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a broad, bipartisan support between the United States and our NATO and European allies to support Ukraine against Russian aggression, [W]e had a very productive meeting with President Zelensky. We talked primarily about what his needs are when it comes to winning this war. And he is providing this delegation with the list of the weapons the Ukraine needs to win.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we're talking about The Supreme Court reversal from an intersectional perspective of gender affirming care and reproductive justice, we've seen these attacks directed at gender-affirming care and more widely just the transgender community dating back to the bathroom bills, these bills are primarily focused on this rhetoric of transgender people either being deemed a danger to themselves or a danger to other people. And I think similarly, the language that's used to deny abortion services also sort of relies a little bit on a rhetoric of protecting people from themselves.

Mikiko Galpin -LRB- he/him -RRB-

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some students in school are sexually active, my concern would be for those students, especially those with multiple partners or engaging in sexual encounters with people they don't know well, as it's through such intimate activity that monkeypox is primarily spread.

Leana Wen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For Black farmers specifically, it's a tall ask for Congress to ask that Black farmers blindly trust the same agency that is primarily responsible for most of their hardships right now, given this new structure that has been rolled out, we're waiting for The USDA to show us they're willing to change their relationship with Black farmers and other farmers of color.

Wen Fa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For years, Hollywood has been primarily focused on streaming video, but they're now shifting elsewhere, more gaming, sometimes blockchain/NFT, experiential exhibits, etc.

Matthew Ball

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Inflation is primarily caused by excessive demand chasing too few goods.

David Dollar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the motives for this conflict are primarily internal and not the divisions about Iran, there are transformations taking place within Iraqi politics and rising ambitions from different parties who wish to consolidate power.

Mohammed Shummary

Found on CNN
1 year ago

LexisNexis Risk Solutions prides itself on the responsible use of data, and the DHS contract encompasses only data allowed for such uses. The tool contains data primarily from public government records, the principal non-public data is authorized by Congress for such uses in the Drivers Privacy Protection Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act statutes.

Grigas Richman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's no question that extreme weather events are creating greater demand for electricity in this country, primarily through air conditioning load, you’ve got this circumstance for reliability being put into question by this increased demand, where, at the same time, we're reducing our supply. Extreme weather is clearly one of the factors that's causing it.

Jim Matheson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Washburn fire is a relatively small, very slow moving surface fire, burning mainly at low intensity in mild to moderate fire weather, including in dense forests with no forest management history and an abundance of live and dead trees, this underscores what John Muir Project and hundreds of scientists have been saying for years: it’s not primarily about the density of live or dead trees, it’s about the weather and climate, and climate change.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Differences in face recognition ability in the typical population result primarily from genetic differences, developmental prosopagnosia (DP) often runs in families, so it is likely that genetic factors play a big role in the emergence of most cases of DP. However, we haven't identified any of the genes involved in face recognition yet.

Brad Duchaine

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime.

John Lott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are actively engaged in reorienting our trade flows and foreign economic contacts towards reliable international partners, primarily the BRICS countries.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were seeing digital health companies primarily focusing on stigmatized issues in men's health, such as hair loss or erectile dysfunction, i started thinking : Is that a model for safe, discreet, affordable abortion access ?

Kiki Freedman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t want to suggest that NATO is weak or should be weak or that we should abandon it in any way. But the way for it to be strengthened is for Europe to know that defending the integrity of Europe is primarily a European responsibility.

Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a worthy objective to try to drive a wedge between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but at this point they're basically Siamese twins, you're not going to be able to pull those guys apart. This is a ten-year effort to stitch themselves to one another—driven primarily by Xi Jinping personally—to make Vladimir Putin his junior partner in a new axis.

Matthew Pottinger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

However, it is clear that racial equity be addressed to support every learner, we know there are long-standing inequities in our systems that have led to gaps in outcomes for students of color. We do emphasize culturally responsive professional learning and an inclusive curriculum that is reflective of all communities in our state. There is both an intellectual and ethical basis for centering equity in professional learning and instructional materials, primarily so ODE can meet its responsibility to create the conditions in which every student can reach their full potential.

An ODE spokesman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the short term, between now and three months, the conflict will affect food supply primarily from a pricing perspective, as net importers of products like wheat, which influences bread and cereals, sunflower oil and maize, African countries are fairly exposed on some of these supplies that are coming out of Russia and Ukraine. There will be challenges if the war continues for more than three months — because ordinarily, countries usually keep stock of supplies for three to five months.

Wandile Sihlobo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I agree with Senator McConnell that this election will primarily be about Joe Biden and the Democrats' failures, but have been clear that I also believe Republicans should talk about a plan for turning this country around, i'm Rick Scott and I've always believed in making plans in order to get things done.

Rick Scott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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